How to print in newline?

[sanox]

Hi, i am new to vb.

Here is my problem.

If Me.BackColor = Color.Red Then
            MessageBox.Show("Hello " & name & "You have chosen the Red Scheme", "Greeting")


        End If

I would like to have a newline at the "You have chosen the Red Scheme"
i tried to put \n after the 'name', but it did not work. Thanks.

 

[Robert_Zenz]

Environment.NewLine contains the specific newline characters.

Bobby

 

[rcombs4]

I've always used

vbCrLf

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

I've always used

vbCrLf

Which only works if you have a reference to Microsoft.VisualBasic, which none of my projects do so that'll never work without re-adding it.

On a side note, Environment.NewLine isn't OS specific, so on the rare chance s/he starts programming on the Mono framework (Linux/Mac) vbCrLf (and vbCr, vbLf, vbNewLine) will always fail whereas Environment.NewLine will always work, no matter what.

This goes for System.IO.Path.DirectorySeparatorChar and System.IO.Path.Combine() too, they'll always work.

 

[MattP]

It should be noted that ControlChars.Newline is a string with the value set to vbCrLf whereas Environment.NewLine is a ReadOnly string property set to the value of new line in the current environment.

Public Shared Const NewLine As String = vbCrLf

 

[JohnH]

Which only works if you have a reference to Microsoft.VisualBasic, which none of my projects do so that'll never work without re-adding it.

You are always referencing Microsoft.VisualBasic, VB projects won't compile without the Runtime library. You might have disabled the project level namespace import for this, though.

I prefer the vbNewLine constant btw.